Chef

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Overview

This course takes you through all the required ‘recipes’ to configure, deploy, and scale your servers and applications. This course contains easy-to-follow, step-by-step guidelines describing how to solve real world automation challenges.

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What You'll learn

Upon completing the course successfully, the participant would be able to:

Have an in-depth understanding of the Chef ecosystem
Manage server and cloud infrastructure with Chef
Automate your infrastructure with Chef without errors
Learn to write better cookbooks, recipes, use plug-ins etc.
Learn the Chef Language and style
Evaluating and troubleshooting Cookbook runs

Duration: 24 Hours

Curriculum

Overview of Chef

Common Chef Terminology (Server, Workstation, Client, Repository etc.)
Servers and Nodes
Chef Configuration Concepts

Workstation Setup

How to configure Knife
Execute some commands to test connection between knife and workstation

Organization Setup

Create organization
Add yourself and node to organization

Test Node Setup

Create a server and add to organization
Check node details using knife
Node Objects and Search

How to Add Run list to Node

Check node Details
Environments

How to create Environments

Add servers to environments

Roles

Create roles
Add Roles to organization

Attributes

Understanding of Attributes
Creating Custom Attributes
Defining in Cookbooks

Data bags

Understanding the data bags
Creating and managing the data bags
Creating the data bags using CLI and Chef Console
Sample data bags for Creating Users

Prerequisites

Knowledge of virtualization, system administration, along with basic understanding of command line interfaces would be beneficial, though not mandatory